crime bill, illegal to sell guns over internet

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Shooting the Messengers?
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

3:00 a.m. 14.Oct.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- When a group of
Montana parents needed to raise money
to pay for their children's athletic
programs this week, they decided to
raffle off a Ruger rifle. In a message sent
to local mailing lists, they announced,
"The Missoula County Home School
Athletic Association is sponsoring a Ruger
M77 30-06 with a walnut stock and a 3x9
Tasco."

Such a posting could send the parents
straight to prison unless their notice
complied with Internet advertising
restrictions added to the Senate version
of the Juvenile Justice bill, according to
some Second Amendment advocates.

House and Senate committee staff are
meeting this week to resolve the different
versions of the crime bill, said a
spokeswoman for the Senate Judiciary
committee. "They're trying to get
agreements on things. We're getting
closer."

"Basically, you will go to prison for one
year for attempting to sell a firearm over
the Internet if your email is pulled down
by anyone under 18 or any 'prohibited
person,'" says Mike Hammond, a
consultant to Gun Owners of America and
a former general counsel to the US
Senate steering committee.

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Are they going to do the same law for newspapers?

I dont see the difference.

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What of non-USA sales? Will NWO rules and regulations apply? Who will enforce these?
In the above vein, what about making automobile sites illegal, alcoholic beverage sites illegal, any site advocating chemicals of any sort (Monsanto, Roundup, Ivory Soap, etc)? Same nonsense, though the antis will say different.
 
Should make a definitive First Amendment case. I can see the present Justice Department working hard to ensure government control over what's said on the Internet.
 
What the bill requires is standard boiler-plate legal mumbo jumbo, about how it is illegal to sell firearms to juveniles and convicted felons. Doesn't actually require it, only suggests it. But by not having it you could be held liable for damages if you did happen to sell a firearm to a juve or felon, and it was used in the commission of a crime.

I don't think it makes the law any nicer, just wanted to make sure people knew the facts. When I read the whole story it got into greater detail.

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Peace through superior firepower...
Keith

If the 2nd is antiquated, what will happen to the rest.
"the right to keep and bear arms."
 
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